Chapter 32 Apartment Copy (V)
The next morning, 501 came to bring warmth again.
Perhaps Ning Hanqi's acting skills the day before convinced 501. After she opened the door with a pale face today, 501 didn't force her to taste the broth, and even showed some concern for her.
The aroma of the broth wafted through the aisles, but everyone could guess what the meat was made of, so the smell was just nauseating.
Ning Hanqi thanked him and, just like yesterday, poured the contents of the casserole in 501's hand into the basin in the kitchen, then returned the casserole to 501.
"Brother, your relatives sent so much pork. Can the refrigerator hold it all?" This time Ning Hanqi did not close the door immediately. Instead, he greeted 501 like a real neighbor.
Her beautiful eyes are extremely deceptive. It is easy for anyone, whether human or ghost, to let down their guard in front of her. Xia has a say on this point.
It was already late at night, and the humans who had been running around all day were somewhat tired. Seeing that there was no movement on Ning Hanqi's boat, some people began to yawn, but forced themselves not to close their eyes.
After a while, there was a slight movement from the boat next to us, but it disappeared in an instant.
Chang Chujing stretched her head out to take a look again, and happened to see Xia Yingnuan who had returned.
Compared to Ning Hanqi, Xia Yingnuan left a greater psychological shadow on her. Facing her eyes that were stained scarlet in the night, Chang Chujing subconsciously shrank back.
"Nothing is coming yet, so you should take good care of yourself and get some sleep. I'll keep an eye on the situation outside and wake you up if anything happens. If you stay up all night without sleeping, something will happen sooner or later." Xia Yingnuan looked a little fierce, but this emotion was not directed at Chang Chujing, so her tone was relatively gentle.
"Thank you, thank you..." Chang Chujing said subconsciously, but then she realized that she had accidentally made a sound. She quickly covered her mouth and then quickly observed the movements on the other side of the boat. She knew that Ning Hanqi didn't really want to expose Xia Yingnuan's existence to some untrustworthy people.
"It's okay. The people on the boat next to us are dozing off and can't hear it." Many years ago, Xia Yingnuan entered this game due to an accident.
As her permissions were overwritten, her modified memories gradually returned, and she couldn't stop crying.
When she first entered this game, she was less than 20 years old. At that time, she had just finished the college entrance examination and was admitted to a good university. It was the age when she played and joked with her friends and looked forward to the future, but everything came to an abrupt end because of a madman.
The man didn't want to live anymore, and before he died he wanted to take some innocent people with him to be buried with him, so he drove his car into the most crowded area. Pedestrians who were caught off guard had no time to dodge, and more than a dozen people died tragically under the wheels.
Originally she was one of them, but it was hard to say whether it was good luck or bad luck, she was chosen by the game and got the chance to continue living.
At that time, I was young and didn’t know that the so-called chance of resurrection was nothing but an indefinitely prolonged torture.
Luckily, she managed to hold on for nearly ten years in this torture. During this long time, she cleared one dungeon after another, but still couldn't find a way to leave. Although ten years of hard work had exhausted her physically and mentally, she was unwilling to give up hope because her vitality was as tenacious as weeds.
She studied the known copies over and over again. Apart from the ghost and god copies, there were only a few special copies that had a chance of causing her to fail. One of them was a copy of a haunted house in the Republic of China with a history of more than 100 years.
After nearly ten years of ups and downs in the gaming world, Xia Yingnuan has also figured out some of the hidden things here, such as the fact that the copy world will collapse one day, and this copy of the haunted house in the Republic of China is already nearing its "service life".
The closer it gets to self-destruction, the worse the dungeon boss's mental state will become, and the more dangerous it will become...
In order to deal with such a copy, she made sufficient preparations. If she wanted to live longer in this game world, she had to think ten steps ahead.
She collected Ning Hanqi's life information, and then judged the ghostly weakness of this dungeon boss from the hidden information in the dungeon rules. If she wanted to survive from his hands, she would have to exchange "sincerity" for sincerity when necessary.
So she used a prop that could distort her cognition, specifically to deal with the dungeon boss's ability to detect lies.
But she never expected that her first fall would be when she lifted the red veil of the dungeon boss and made eye contact with her.
There was no hideous ghost as rumored, nor any bloody incident. The moment the veil was lifted, she saw a pair of extremely beautiful eyes, like stardust in the cold night, which made her heart beat faster. Even today, when she thinks back on it, she can't forget the amazement she felt at that time.
Ning Hanqi is not as scary as the players say. On the contrary, she is the calmest and most restrained ghost he has ever seen... and also the most beautiful.
She thought that every word of "I like you" she said was distorted by the props. However, when the copy ended and the plan was completed, and the copy boss knew that there was something wrong with her but still turned a blind eye and let her go, Xia Yingnuan felt that she was not very happy.
Before leaving the copy, she could still use the influence of the props to deceive herself, but after leaving the copy, the influence of the props disappeared. Whenever she stayed at home alone at night, she could no longer control the surging emotions in her heart.
In that mutual testing that started with a lie, I seemed to have won, but I had lost my sincerity in the stakes.
Friends she met in the game sent her congratulatory messages, congratulating her on completing the dungeon. Xia Yingnuan tossed and turned for a long time, and finally made up her mind one night. She posted a message on the forum, saying that she would bind other players as a guide and enter the dungeon again.
Friends asked her if she was crazy.
It's not that I'm crazy, it's that I'm screwed.
Before leaving the copy, Xia Yingnuan half-seriously said to Ning Hanqi in order to make her happy that she would come here to accompany her when she found the chance.
As smart as the dungeon boss lady was, she only gave a cold response: "You don't need to come again."
Entering the dungeon again, she happily went to the dungeon boss lady. There was surprise, confusion and vigilance in Ning Hanqi's eyes... For a long time, the dungeon boss lady was unwilling to get too close to her.
That's normal. After all, my intentions weren't pure when we first met, so it's normal for her to be wary of me. I have to take my time to melt this ice.
Finally, the defensive spikes in the dungeon boss' heart gradually softened, and they held a real wedding. No matter how reluctant the other ghosts in the dungeon were, they had to carefully send their blessings. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Just as she had guessed before, the dungeon was on the verge of collapse, and Hanqi's condition deteriorated rapidly after a few months.
She looked for many people outside and studied many copies. Finally, after asking the [Prophet] for help, she finally found the key prop that could solve Hanqi's dilemma, but at the cost of herself.
She succeeded, but she overlooked the feud between her wife and the administrator, allowing the other party to take advantage of the opportunity.
Later...
As her past memories connected with her present memories, she suddenly recalled the time when Ning Hanqi could only silently endure her misunderstanding, cold treatment, and even hurt... The impact of the two memories blending on her was too great, and she felt as if her soul was being torn apart.
She cried so many tears of blood that her eyesight was damaged.
In this isolated space, the owner of this place was devoured and only his head was left. The rest of the ghosts were huddled in the corner, trembling and not daring to come near.
"She, she fell down, you can pull her out." This is complete nonsense. The dungeon boss certainly knows that after a human falls down, their body and soul will be dissolved instantly and then become nutrients for the divine corpse.
The ghost in front of her seemed to have collapsed because of the death of that human. Those who should have stayed away from her just now wanted to launch a sneak attack, so now it has only a head left.
Chang Chujing nodded, and this time she quietly retreated into the boat awning without making any sound.
After the little girl returned, Xia Yingnuan returned to Ning Hanqi's boat. Seeing that she looked unhappy, Ning Hanqi immediately stood up and walked over to her, comforting her: "Did you fail? It doesn't matter. You can find another chance next time."
Xia Yingnuan frowned and said, "That scarf is very strange. When I touched it, it became very hard and tightly protected the person's neck. I couldn't even pry it apart!"
Even steel could only be reduced to plasticine in her hands, but this scarf prop stumped Xia Yingnuan. What made her feel most incredible was that this prop seemed to have intelligence!
She had just battled it for a while, so angry she almost wanted to chop off the upper and lower parts of the flesh that the scarf prop couldn't protect! But sensing her momentary attack intention, the player suddenly woke up, perhaps alerted by the prop? From then on, Xia Yingnuan didn't have the chance to attack.
She had never seen such a versatile prop before. As everyone knows, props are closely related to ghosts and monsters. I'm afraid the monster behind this prop should not be underestimated. Could it be... related to some ghost-level monster?
The more mysteries surrounding the other party, the more she could no longer regard him as an ordinary human player. Xia Yingnuan's murderous intent grew gradually stronger. Although that person probably wouldn't live for a few days, if he was really related to the administrator, she thought it would be better to send him away in advance.
"That item, or that person might really have a problem, but it's hard to say whether his problem is related to the leak of the player's aura." And is there something else involved behind all this?
Ning Hanqi leaned on Xia Yingnuan's shoulder and looked at the strange moon in the night sky. She raised her hand and covered her left heart. For some reason, her heart beat faster and she felt an indescribable feeling of depression.
So far, everything that happened in this copy was not that troublesome. Unlike the previous sea amusement park that was full of dangers and people died from the beginning, the beginning of this ghost copy could even be considered calm.
The difficulty of this copy is generally recognized to be lower than that of the Sea Amusement Park. Although from the perspective of ghosts, the hidden dangers in this copy are no less than those in the Sea Amusement Park, players are not exposed to those deep-seated dangers, so it is relatively simpler.
If there was nothing she wanted in this copy, Ning Hanqi would not have planned to go deeper into more dangerous places, but for some reason, the subtle changes in this copy made her feel a sense of uneasiness that she had never felt even in the sea amusement park.
The wind was howling outside, but Xia Yingnuan didn't let a single bit of the cold wind penetrate the awning.
Because of the Ghost General's warning, Xia Yingnuan used her ghost power to create a layer of protection for Ning Hanqi when she was on the boat just now, covering up the human breath, and she also put a layer of protection on Chang Chujing.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell in your heart?" Xia Yingnuan was startled by Ning Hanqi's gesture of raising her hand. She was afraid that her sickly girlfriend would develop some of her previous illnesses after being exposed to the cold wind outside.
"I feel a little stuffy in my heart, but it should be fine after a while." Ning Hanqi didn't care too much. The previous time he was seriously ill was much more serious than it is now. It's just that my heart feels a little stuffy. If I leave it alone, it should be fine after a while.
However, Xia Yingnuan did not dare to be careless and directly took out a bottle of potion that the prophet had invested in before and fed it to her.
"I'm really fine, don't worry." The effect of this potion was immediate. Ning Hanqi felt much better after drinking it. Then she raised her hand and rubbed Xia Yingnuan's frown.
Xia Yingnuan glanced at Ning Hanqi's cross pocket watch. It was already past 3 a.m. Even an ordinary person might experience palpitations if they stayed up late, let alone a patient like Ning Hanqi whose physical fitness was far weaker than that of ordinary people?
"It's too late now. You've always had a regular schedule when you were outside. You must feel uncomfortable staying up so late all of a sudden." Xia Yingnuan cursed the game in her heart as usual, and then let Ning Hanqi lie down and use her legs as a pillow. There was hard wood everywhere here, no mats or bedding. If she huddled up here to sleep, there was a high probability of getting a stiff neck the next day.
Her legs were only slightly colder, but the rest of the feel was the same as that of ordinary people, soft and comfortable to lean on.
"The environment here is too bad. You just have to sleep here for one night. When the merchant comes tomorrow, I'll ask if I can buy a quilt..." Xia Yingnuan was thinking about how to use the copper coins she earned today. Unfortunately, money is the key to leaving this copy. Even if she has money for the time being, she can't spend it too lavishly. She has to save it.
"This is also good. It doesn't require too much trouble. It's probably hard to get some rest at night these days. It's better to find a chance to sleep for a while during the day."
"Then get a quilt first. It's cold here at night. If you don't sleep with a quilt, you will get sick sooner or later!" Xia Yingnuan thought about it and decided that she could put off buying other things, but she had to have a quilt!
"Okay, then let's go ask tomorrow to see if there are any quilts for sale." Ning Hanqi adjusted his position, then reached out and hugged Xia Yingnuan's waist.
"Don't think too much. I'll be keeping an eye on that place. Take this opportunity to take a break. You don't know if there will be any more ghosts coming here tonight." Xia Yingnuan tidied up her messy hair, then patted the back of the person in her arms, like coaxing a child.
Before this dungeon, Ning Hanqi spent half a month finally cultivating a habit in Xia Yingnuan. She leaned over and gave her a kiss. "Okay, goodnight kiss. Go get some rest."
Xia Yingnuan could feel the body in her arms tremble slightly, and the voice as tender as a kitten tickled her heart. She was so startled that she wanted to shrink back, but Ning Hanqi, who had anticipated her reaction, immediately stopped her.
Due to inertia, the two people's heads hit each other.
"Click..." The door of their bedroom was opened.
There were footsteps entering the room.
Xia Yingnuan suddenly opened her eyes wide, and the sweet and soft touch on her lips made her mind go blank for a moment. In this tense and quiet environment, the perception of both people and ghosts was infinitely magnified. She forgot to refuse and indulged in it for a while, and after that thing entered the door, she lost the opportunity to refuse.
Taking into consideration that Xia Yingnuan still had some resistance in her heart, Ning Hanqi regretfully stopped at just a brief kiss, letting Nuannuan get used to it first, so that they could kiss for a longer time next time.
The sweet and soft scent slightly moved away. Xia Yingnuan knew that Ning Hanqi couldn't see anything, but she still glared at her fiercely... to hide her inner panic and a little bit of reluctance.
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